The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce the winners of our inaugural Grant Accelerator Program (GAP) award competition! Supported by the Alice McPherson Endowment Fund for the Visual Sciences, the Van Vreede McPherson ERI Greatest …
Award Opportunities/Grants
Introducing the McPherson ERI Grant Accelerator Program!
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is excited to announce our newest funding opportunity, the Grant Accelerator Program (GAP)! Supported by the Alice McPherson Endowment Fund for the Visual Sciences, the Van Vreede McPherson ERI Greatest …
McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards, Fall 2019
McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards provide funds for graduate students and postdocs from McPherson ERI members’ research groups to attend conferences to present vision-related work and to advance educational and professional development opportunities. The …
Enrollment open for the Illuminating Discovery Science Communication Course
McPherson ERI member H. Adam Steinberg, who for many years has offered McPherson ERI members and trainees an annual workshop on effectively presenting and communicating science in posters and presentations, will co-teach an Illuminating Discovery …
Applications Open for Fall 2019 Walsh Research Travel Awards
With funding from Cycle for Sight as well as from the David G. Walsh Research Fellowship Fund, two David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards will be awarded to support graduate students and/or postdoctoral researchers in …
Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Trainee Grants Announced
The McPherson Eye Research Institute’s Research and Leadership Committees are pleased to announce that Michael Landowski, PhD, and Kazuya Oikawa, BVSc, are the 2019 recipients of the Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Trainee Grants. Michael Landowski, …
McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards, Spring 2019
McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards provide funds for graduate students and postdocs from McPherson ERI members’ research groups to attend conferences to present vision-related work and to advance educational and professional development opportunities. The …
Visiting Scholar Award Recipients 2019
The Visiting Scholar Program (VSP) provides a unique opportunity for McPherson ERI members to invite researchers from other institutions to visit UW-Madison for up to a week. These immersive experiences facilitate in-depth interactions and exchanges …
Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Trainee Grants 2019
Applications are now available for the 2019 McPherson ERI vision research trainee grants, now renamed the Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Trainee Grants. Kenzi Valentyn was a courageous and upbeat young woman whose long battle against …
McPherson ERI Visiting Scholar Opportunity
For the fourth year, the McPherson Eye Research Institute has allocated funds to support one Visiting Scholar invited to the UW-Madison campus by a McPherson ERI member. (McPherson ERI members from other institutions can also be invited to …